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also been in very brisk demand 



eral well known and popular citizens have 



street retailers, bu1 it is never omitted by 

 design. Many conventions of differenl 

 • and or.lirs have been held here 

 during the summer, and every time loin 

 five of the lending simps have made 

 some and original designs, emblem- 

 atic of the order. They are past now, 

 but I will be good ill future. The last 

 time 1 passed down Main street I no- 

 a wn handsome slim, at S. A. An 

 t was a lot of extra fine 

 onica finely trimmed up u nh 

 a background of l'iiii or 300 splendid 

 American Beauty 1 roses. 1 don't know 

 whether tins was harmony or contrast. 

 No matter which, it was rich and "tak- 

 ing." 



There was a meeting of the club last 

 Wednesday, from which your corre- 

 spondent had a very substantial reason hi 

 lie absent, much to his regret. The H. A. 

 Meldrum chrysanthemum show was an im- 

 portant topic and I believe all arrange- 

 ments are complete. A thousand dol- 

 lars will be awarded in comparatively 

 very leu classes which makes prizes well 

 worth any one's competing for. Sched- 

 ule of prizes can be obtained of Chas. H. 

 Keitsch, Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. It 

 would be very pleasant to have a large 

 proportion of this sum stay at home, but 

 I hope for the sake of the truly enter- 

 prising tii-m which put up the money that 

 some of the best growers in the country 

 will exhibit. 



The bowling section of the club has en- 

 tered a team in a five-team league, to be 

 bowled this winter hv the crack teams of 

 the eity, which should yet them in trim 

 to discipline John Westcott and his rub- 

 1 "' r ' 30 " ] ed gi Captain Braik was un- 

 pointed a commit! f one to obtain 



formula and brew a sufficient quantity of 

 the famous " Westcott bowling punch" 

 *" r "se at St. I e,„.. Several of the 

 competme .dubs think that the Phiilie's 

 many victories ?re largely attributable to 

 that peculiar stimulant. 

 . T " t:ikr '""'i as pall bearer at the 



'"'"'' : I Ot Wil-e-, S. I'O. -ell. hiS Host 



master-general during his lust term, ex- 



Vr 1 , ' Rrover Cleveland visited his 



old home f or the first time in twelve 

 years. Tie was but twelve hour, in the 

 city. Many of the social functions would 

 have been tendered him. but. very pron- 

 eily he declined all and would say noth- 

 ing to rewsi.nt.er men but kind ai 

 \:" l \' ' ' | V"' ,K '"'' his departed friend, 



" ''' •' ' ( '" >•<• >' turn home l-'ridnv 

 '' l -' llt - via the Erie railroad, G. C. and 



Joh« O. Carlisle wt stalled in the B I 



Jt Kim.,;, I < ,... „„.„ m wU 



";'■''■ C. that in ,,> „,, weather 

 - better than lapped but 

 I do him in the,,- state of 

 stalldom. 



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the Dei ratii 



-f Buffalo this 



is a very important office and one that 



any citizen may be proud to till Mr 



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there is no doubt of I is 



ability and integrity, and I 1 ,,, 



i that he 

 will bi < u - g 



PACIFIC COAST. 



ROSE NOTES. 

 \l.out everyone who contemplated 

 changing his rose houses has finished re- 

 planting by this time. The majority of 

 the growers in the vicinity of San Fran- 

 cisco have used the same varieties this 

 season for forcing that they did last 

 year, that is, Kaiserin and Bride for 



for pink, Liberty and American Beauty 

 for red and Souvenir du Pres. Carnot 



for cream. There has l „ considerable 



inquiry for stock of the Ivory but there 

 are not us yet any rose growers who 

 have had very much experience with it 

 and no one has had anything to force ex- 

 cepl small plants on their own roots. 



Liberty has superseded Meteor almost 

 entirely, but a few growers still plant 

 Mrs. Laing and TJlrich Brunner. Brides- 

 maid is still in as great demand as ever 

 and perfect blooms bring top prices. 

 Belle Siebrecht and Duchess of Albany 

 are seen occasionally, but they are not 

 considered good forcers. Perle des Jar- 

 dins, by far the finest of our yellow 

 roses, either inside or in the garden, is 

 not in much favor with the growers. 

 Most of the florists seem to be able to 

 supply the wants of their patrons with- 

 out handling any yellow roses, and most 

 of the growers have discarded planting 

 them. Sunset is not in evidence at all, 

 although it is really a splendid variety 

 when properly handled. Niphetos has 

 not been planted for the last six or 

 seven years. It makes a beautiful bud, 

 but a weak and wobbly stem and has 



1 n entirely superseded by Bride and 



Kaiserin. S,nn- growers tried Queen of 

 Edgely last Beason, but the flower seems 

 to be hardly up to color and inclined to 

 come short stemmed. Cecil Brunner finds 

 considerable favor with some growers 

 and the flowers are always in demand. 



There has always been more or less 



controversj ai g the growers as to 



the planting of stock, whether it should 

 be low buddi d or grow o on if s on n roots. 

 The majority of the growers are finding 

 out from experience that they havi ix 



lei success fr strong, field-grown, 



budded .t. ck. ( ;. 



THE PACIFIC NURSERY. 



A st interesting place is the Pacific 



Nursery, San Francisco, of which F. 

 Ludemann is proprietor. All sorts of or- 

 namentals are grown and the s llinos 



of different suits coming on run into 

 the hundreds of thousands. 



The major part of these are from out 

 of door seed beds and the fiats in which 

 ings ore pricked out are also out 

 of doors, simply placed close together 

 on the ground. Such standard Hones 

 as the blue gum and Monterey cypres 

 are handled in immense quantities and 

 thej ore sold by the flat. The choice 

 ornamentals are potted and are grown 

 in these pots plunged in the soil to 

 facilitate planting out at any time of 

 the year. 

 Camellias, of which Mr. I udermann car- 

 " a largi stock in all sizes, and other 

 similar stock are in hill, I hat ai 



ford some shade from thi un. \ new 

 lath house, erected this season, is abouf 

 eighty feet square, and , . . .,,, ... i l;l j| 



'fliers. 



In the greenhouses an immense ari 

 pa ,,, seeds are being germinated 



and there is a full line of the more ten- 

 der palms and decorative plants. The 

 seedling araucarias are especially numer- 

 ous, and a bench of young Araucaria 

 excelsa in 2^-ineh pots, all perfect in 

 form and of a uniform height, of about 

 six inches, is a sight to remember. 



To even mention all of the interesting 

 things to be seen here would fill a page 

 of the Review. The trade visitor to San 

 Francisco should not fail to see the Pa- 

 cific Nursery and its genial and well 

 posted proprietor, Mr. Ludemann. 



GARDENING tNDER 



GLASS 



Elgin, III. — Simon Dumser, who for- 

 merly grew vegetables under glass, says 

 that the competition of outdoor stuff 

 from the south has taken most of the 

 profit out of the business. He now grows 

 miscellaneous pot plants and enough veg- 

 for local demand. 



We find that 



d much cleaner 

 it of any soil. 



RADISHES. 



The radish is one of the easiest sub- 

 jects to force, and one that gives the 

 quickest returns of any crop that can 

 be grown. Though they can be grown 

 in any ordinary soil and are very ac- 

 commodating for filling in where a space 

 occurs, we find that it pays to make a 

 little special preparation for them when 

 they are depended on for a crop. We 

 grow them in raised benches about six 

 inches deep. In the bottom of the bench 

 we place about three inches of well 

 rotted manure, and cover this over to a 

 depth of about three inches with clean 

 sand in place of soil, 

 they come out of the sa: 

 and nicer than they do 

 We sow in rows about four inches apart, 

 scattering the seeds thinly and evenly, 

 so as to avoid having to do any thinning. 



In sowing thus thinly it 'is well to 

 make sure that the seed is good or to 

 know just what percentage of it is go- 

 ing to come up. A simple method of 

 testing the seeds is to count out fifty 

 or 100 of them and place them between 

 folds of thick brown paper in a shallow 

 vessel, such as a flower pot saucer, and 

 keep the paper moist but not too wet; 

 keep in a temperature of about 50 de- 

 crees, and in about twenty-four hours 

 it can be seen just how many of the 



Of the many varieties we have tried 

 the one we like best is Xon Plus Ultra. 

 This has a very dwarf top, is a round, 

 evenly sized, uniformly well shaped rad- 

 ish of good quality and flavor; color red. 

 Where a long shaped radish is wanted 

 the old French Breakfast is about the 

 best, but it takes rather longer to ma- 

 ture than the first named. Xon Plus 

 Ultra will mature in about three weeks 

 from time of sowing. 



Regarding temperature, we have had 

 the best success by running the house 

 at 50 degrees by night, allowing a rea- 

 sonable rise by sunheat. If the tem- 

 perature is kept much higher than this 

 it induces a rank top growth, and de- 

 tracts from the quality of the radish, 

 though nmking very little change in the 

 time of maturing. A large supply of 



water is a scessary, as the materials 



used are rather retentive, but water 

 should of course be given when the sand 

 show s signs of drj uess 



W. S. Croydon. 



